Neville Goddard on Amos 3:4-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Amos 3 in context

Scripture Focus

4Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

5Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

Amos 3:4-5

Biblical Context

Amos 3:4-5 uses lions and snares to show that events arise from inner causes; there is no outer occurrence without an inner movement, affirming a universal law of cause and effect.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the forest lions and the snares as symbols born from your own being. The roar and the trap are not distant assaults but precise inner movements that occur when a state is active within you. If you dwell in lack or fear, your interior state seeks a prey of conditions, and the outer world seems to roar back to confirm it. If you hold a belief that you must be caught, the ground you stand on can become the very snare. Amos shows that nothing enters form without a corresponding inner movement; the law is exact and impersonal, yet intimate to you because you are the I AM perceiving. To alter your world, shift the state from which you imagine. Revise the sense of lack into the feeling of fulfilled desire. Imagination is the causal force; by living from the end you become the forest that yields the prey of your choice.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the state of your fulfilled desire, feeling it as real now; carry that feeling into the next hours and notice how your surroundings echo your inner certainty.